Use alias for base url?

[peteruithoven]

Feature request

What problem does this feature solve?

When using a different base it's not possible to use the regular image markdown syntax, for example:

![Forest](/images/forest.jpg)

Currently the workaround is using html and withBase

<img :src="$withBase('/images/forest.jpg')" alt="Forest">

What does the proposed API look like?

Would it be possible to use a webpack alias to refer to the base url? For example:

![Forest](~@base/public/images/forest.jpg)

But, this doesn't work out of the box. I tried this and got the following error

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@base/public/images/forest.jpg' in '/home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/src/blog'
resolve '@base/public/images/forest.jpg' in '/home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/src/blog'
  Parsed request is a module
  using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/package.json (relative path: ./src/blog)
    aliased with mapping '@base': 'src/.vuepress' to 'src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg'
      Parsed request is a module
      using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/package.json (relative path: ./src/blog)
        Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
        resolve as module
          looking for modules in /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/lib/node/webpack/node_modules
            using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node/webpack/node_modules)
              Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
              using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node/webpack/node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg)
                no extension
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
                  /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/lib/node/webpack/node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg doesn't exist
                .js
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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                .jsx
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
                  /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/lib/node/webpack/node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg.jsx doesn't exist
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                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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                as directory
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            using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node/node_modules)
              Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
              using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node/node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg)
                no extension
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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            using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node_modules)
              Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
              using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./lib/node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg)
                no extension
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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            using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./node_modules)
              Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
              using description file: /home/peteruithoven/Projects/Metabolic/dev/vuepress-experiment/node_modules/@vuepress/core/package.json (relative path: ./node_modules/src/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg)
                no extension
                  Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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              Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration
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                no extension
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I used the following config to add the public alias.

title: Experiment
description: An interactive webbased report experiment
dest: public/experiments/vuepress/
base: /experiments/vuepress/
configureWebpack:
  resolve:
    alias:
      "@base": src/.vuepress

Docs:

• https://vuepress.vuejs.org/plugin/option-api.html#alias
• https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/assets.html#relative-urls

How should this be implemented in your opinion?

By including a default webpack alias?

Are you willing to work on this yourself?

Yes, but I'd need some tips.

[billyyyyy3320]

I like it. Contribution Welcome.

If you'd like to take it. This might the file and I guess you can get siteConfig there.

[peteruithoven]

Ah interesting! I noticed that sourceDir and therefore the @source alias revers to the src folder so in my case I was able to refer to the image using:

![Forest](~@source/.vuepress/public/images/forest.jpg)

With my base config set to /experiments/vuepress/ this is then translated to the following html:

<img src="/experiments/vuepress/assets/img/forest.90378e61.jpg" alt="Forest">

So I guess because this is a "compile time" thing the base doesn't really matter that's handled automatically by webpack.

Now I'm not sure how to proceed. Files in this ./vuepress/public/ folder are included anyway, so having them also uploaded to /assets/img/ doesn't really make sense.
If I place the image in src/images/ I can use:

![Forest](~@source/images/forest.jpg)

This results in

<img src="/experiments/vuepress/assets/img/forest.90378e61.jpg" alt="Forest">

But then I'm not sure this is an big enough improvement over using relative paths to warrant the complexity of the ~@source/ path. For example from a markdown file in /src/blog/ I can also refer to the same image using:

![Forest](../images/forest.jpg)

This will result in the same html. I think the ~@source/ only makes sense if you expect to move the file a lot and/or you have a lot of folder.

It might be interesting to mention this existing @source alias in the documention, for example here:

• https://vuepress.vuejs.org/guide/assets.html#relative-urls
• https://vuepress.vuejs.org/plugin/option-api.html#alias